A friend has agreed to look after your house and pet while you are on holiday. Write a letter to your friend. In your letter • give contact details for when you are away • give instructions about how to care for your pet • describe other household duties

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Dear Gaurav, I am writing
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letter to let you know some things, about my pet and house, which would help you to handle things smoothly while I am going away for the
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two weeks on a holiday. Since I am going to visit my sister in London, you can contact me on her mobile phone +447939494945 or my email ID which is [email protected]. I would be regularly checking my mails, at least once a day so I would be easy to communicate. While I am away, I would request you to feed my cat, Bruno at regular intervals, preferably every 3 hours. The cat food is kept in the
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cupboard in the kitchen.
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fill his bowl with fresh water timely. You can bathe him once in three days. Apart from the cat, I would request you to water the plants regularly and collect any letters that arrive in the mailbox.
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, the electricity bill will arrive when I would be away and generally it needs to be paid within two days. Please pay the bill at the electricity office, which is just one block away and I would pay
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to you as soon as I would be back. Hope you do not face any trouble taking care of the things. Yours Lovingly Prerna
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Use cohesive linking words accurately and appropriately

Linking words are very important in your essay.

To score effectively on your IELTS exam, you should make an effort to implement short concise sentences coupled with linking words.

Almost every sentence in your essay should have a linking word of some sort.

In fact, the only sentences that can omit linking words are your background sentence and thesis.

Linking word examples:

  • firstly
  • secondly
  • thirdly
  • in additional
  • moreover
  • also
  • for example
  • for instance
  • therefore
  • however
  • although
  • even though
  • despite

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